CHAMPION, Charles.
PestifÃ rÃ s de Jafa.- [Paris], C. Motte [for Arnault, c. 1825]. Original lithograph by Charles Champion after the 1804 oil painting by Gros, image size c. 31 x 42 cm; very clean and with wide margins. This print was published in Antoine-Vincent Arnault's monumental Vie Politique et Militaire de Napoleon, which appeared from 1822 to 1826. The playwright Arnault had been a companion of Napoleon since the Ionian mission and Egypt campaign of 1797, and was involved in Napoleon's coup d'Ã tat of the 18th Brumaire.
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